In this video from Microsoft Finance Director Marc Reguera's series, 'From Data to Insight & Impact', Marc interacts with Pedram Rezaei, the architect of one of the most exciting new features of Power BI called Q&A. Together, Marc and Pedram show...

Power BI is an excellent data visualization tool. If you haven’t seen it in action, take a look at the short video we just published on the Microsoft Cloud OS YouTube channel . It is quick and informative in order to give you some examples...

Author : Jenifer Underwood , Sr. Technical Product Manager, Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence In this new world of exploding data volumes, the ability to make sense of all this data and effectively communicate insights from it is a highly valued...

Today we are excited to feature a guest post from Mike Davis, MCITP, who is the Managing Project Lead at Pragmatic Works. He is an author of several Business intelligence books. Mike is an experienced speaker and has presented at many events...

Father’s Day is approaching and you might be thinking about a good place to have a nice lunch with your Dad… We would like to show you how Data Explorer and Geoflow can help you gather some insights to make a good decision. In order to achieve this, we...

Data Explorer Preview for Excel represents a new way to discover, combine and refine data for your self-service BI needs. If you are new to Data Explorer, here are 5 key concepts to get you caught up on how Data Explorer can fundamentally improve the...

UPDATE (3/12/13): The “So You Think You Know Excel Challenge” is back and better than ever, with more time to play and more prizes go give away! Last week, you may have experienced a slight disruption of the “So You Think You Know Excel” Challenge...

Guest blogger Dan Clark is a senior BI consultant for Pragmatic Works. As a member of the Pragmatic Works SEAL Team (Special Engagements and Learning) he is focused on learning new BI technologies and training others how to best implement the technology...

Last week, Excel 2013 Preview, SharePoint 2013 Preview and SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Community Technology Preview 3 (SP1 CTP3) became available for customers to download. This release comes on the heels of SQL Server 2012, released just a few months...

By Joe Mullich
Since the economic downturn, executives have heightened their focus on customer loyalty, looking for new ways to retain and draw additional value from their existing customer base.
The Mandarin Hotel Group, which operates 42 luxury...

By now, you have probably heard of Power View, the interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience shipping in Reporting services in SQL Server 2012. It’s one of the features we are very excited about. Since we heard a rumor...

Guest Author: Dan Clark , Senior BI Consultant, Pragmatic Works Introduction The goal of this blog series is to expose you to the process needed to create a BISM Tabular Model in SQL Server 2012 and deploy it to an Analysis Server where it can be exposed...

As we announced last week on our Windows Azure site here , we are ushering in a new era of Hybrid IT, bringing the best of both our on-premises offerings and cloud together. A key part of this solution is delivering the promise of business intelligence...

Have you ever bought a new car or computer, and a year later you’re still discovering cool new features you never knew were there (because you didn’t take time to read the manual)? When this happens, you kick yourself a little and think, “Dang,...

The newly published article, Mobile Support Across Business Intelligence (BI) Technologies, outlines the mobile devices and mobile operating systems you can use with SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Office 365. It includes...

At TechEd North America we announced Microsoft SQL Server 2014 as part of a wave of updates to our key enterprise products. During TechEd Europe, we announced the availability of the first public Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2014....

At our Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston we unveiled Power BI for Office 365 , a self-service business intelligence (BI) solution delivered through Excel and Office 365 which provides information workers with data analysis and visualization capabilities...

In our second Big Data technology guest blog post, we are thrilled to have Ashvini Sharma, a Group Program Manager in the SQL Server Business Intelligence group at Microsoft. Ashvini discusses how organizations can provide insights for everyone from any...

Senior Program Manager Sean Boon has created a great blog series that visualizes and analyzes different sets of data from this year’s summer games. Each post highlights a couple features in Power View for Excel 2013 and how you can build these reports...

We are very excited to announce the Microsoft Office Division team has released to manufacturing Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013. The Office team has made a number of significant Business Intelligence investments in Office and SharePoint 2013 that we...

In our last post , we gave you an overview of Power View capabilities and a chance to play around with some demos. Now we'll take you through a guided example of how to manipulate one of those demos.
However, we wanted to give everyone an opportunity...

This post is from Microsoft BI Architect Aneal Roney. Aneal is a Principal Consultant with Catapult Systems which is a national Microsoft-focused IT consulting company that provides application development, enterprise solutions and infrastructure services...

I run the Appliance Engineering team for SQL Server. One of the questions I get asked most often about building appliances, is how do we go about designing a new appliance. We don’t start with a cool piece of hardware and figure out what we might...

We’ve been hinting that a contest was coming, and now it has arrived. Welcome to the #MSBI Power View Contest!
Power View is the new interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience shipping in Reporting Services in SQL...

Chandoo.org
Purna Duggirala is the expert behind Chandoo.org . The name Chandoo comes from a nick name he was given. He has an MBA from IIM Indore and Computer Science degree from Andhra University. Because he is an avid enthusiast of analytics...